Sage Accpac Accounting Software Vancouver Blog – Unisoft

Why is Sage selling a Microsoft product?  These days the tech industry is all about coopetition; a basic principle described in Game Theory by John Nash where competitive companies cooperate. “What is best for the group is best for an individual in the group”.

Microsoft SQL has become the database of choice for Sage ERP Accpac, and many other Sage products, as it is fast and efficient.  What more details?  Talk to our techy, programmer, IT Ninja Matt@Unisoft.net and he will chat your ear off for days about why this combination provides superior environment. Ask him about Accpac with Pervasive or just about any other DB and you might as well run for the hills. So what is the deal anyways…

Sage is reintroducing Sage ERP Accpac with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Runtime Edition (available for 32-Bit and 64-Bit) with a new competitive pricing model. This comes bundled with Sage ERP Accpac and its related applications and the capability is guaranteed.

Any of our Sage Accpac clients that would like to migrate from one of the competitive databases listed below is now able to for the low, low price of $75/CAL!

Competitive Databases: IBM, Oracle, Sybase, FoxPro, Pervasive, MySQL and ProvideX

Any new client can purchase the bundled Microsoft SQL Runtime Edition for Sage ERP Accpac for $175 per user CAL. For customers with 30 or more users, the “Per Processor” license is more cost effective. Per Processor licensing is now $5,000.

* Business Care on all Competitive Upgrade CALs are based on the Full Cost of $175/CAL.

  What you need to know about the Microsoft SQL Server Runtime version:  

• Is MS-SQL Server 2008 R2 Standard Edition bundled with the Sage ERP Accpac.
• Can be used for Sage ERP Accpac, SageCRM, any other Sage Accpac-related applications, and any application integrating with Sage ERP Accpac.
• Is technically identical to the full MS-SQL Server 2008 R2 Standard Edition including all the same database administration tools and same performance with no restrictions on database size.
• Is NOT the same as the free MS-SQL Express edition.
• Has restricted use rights and terms that can only be used for Sage Accpac-related applications or any application that is integrated with Sage ERP Accpac or SageCRM.

If you have any other questions, please contact Scott@Unisoft.net / 604-926-3398 or refer to the new FAQ document.

Are you having frustrations preparing your financial reports or do you want to reduce the time you spend preparing these reports? Then watch the demonstration on Sage Accpac Intelligence where we show you how you can save time by eliminating manual and repetitive Excel tasks. Sage Accpac Intelligence provides you with a single version of the truth by eliminating “loose” Excel spread sheet use. Get your reports by the click of a button or have them arrive in your mailbox ready for you to analyze!

Watch the pre-recorded video here: Sage Accpac Intelligence Demonstration

This is a quick tip for Outlook users. If you have deleted items and then removed them from your deleted items folder in outlook there is a way to retrieve these items. All you have to do is locate the menu bar item named “Tools”, expand this and click “Recover Deleted Items…” and that is all. This only works for users using Excahgne 2003 and later versions with Outlook 2003 and later versions.  The number of days items are recovered from are set on your Exchange server.

In 2005, the US Energy Policy Act was passed to extend Daylight Saving Time (DST) in 2007. DST will now start on March 11, 2007, 3 weeks earlier, and end on November 4, 2007, one week later. This can potentially impact many products that during these four extra weeks. A full list of affected Microsoft products is provided below:

To find out more regarding the updates please follow this link:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/gp/cp_dst

Unisoft’s team of business technology consultants  will be more than welcome to assist your business with the transition. Products affected that are worth noting are Office, Exchange Server, SQL Server, Windows XP and Windows Server.